tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489363879633129568.post6955277869134864936..comments2023-11-13T11:54:56.769-08:00Comments on DePaolo's World: It's Just Work CompAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02446191842560064784noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489363879633129568.post-23374724348930640642014-08-22T08:29:14.814-07:002014-08-22T08:29:14.814-07:00Experiencing back pain is really a tough ordeal, e...Experiencing back pain is really a tough ordeal, especially if it's due to previous medical conditions. Therapies must be scheduled and medications must be prescribed. I believe workers have the right to be provided with ways of dealing with those things, and shouldn't be worn down by the burden of costs. That's why insurance provided by employers is really something we should all be thankful for. <br /><br /><a href="http://insureyourco.blogspot.com/2014/06/management-consultant-fallback-on-e.html" rel="nofollow">Mitchell Carlson @ InsureYourCompany.com</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08478798047145078848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489363879633129568.post-39675903150181190862014-07-16T18:41:25.129-07:002014-07-16T18:41:25.129-07:00WE ARE THE MEDIA NOW. #InjuredWorkers, INVISIBLE ...WE ARE THE MEDIA NOW. #InjuredWorkers, INVISIBLE NO MORE!!!Lucy Occupyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05167518537609585687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489363879633129568.post-32526561885594272102014-07-16T15:13:43.713-07:002014-07-16T15:13:43.713-07:00Lucy, it is always about the money. Since what sta...Lucy, it is always about the money. Since what starts in the West goes East, then we need the feds to come in here in CA. I've been in the system since 1988 and it has gotten much worse, if that is even humanely possible. More insurance CEO's & middleman who are pro business (selfinsured), more profit and even less for injured as THE decades go by. As I stated many years ago, injuring workers became a cottage industry. Workers comp ilk live off of injured workers so the more injured workers, the better. There should be no litigation, that was part of the deal (medical care, wages and be made whole-Federal Mandate in early 1900's industrial age) with labor & industry who founded worker's compensation in lieu of tort claims.<br />How about a R.I.C.O. since insurance money is spent on things, funneled for other reasons. And don't forget t to include, of course, those who help keep that money rolling in and taking part of that money, like judges, attorneys, doctors, the whole of WC ilk.<br />We as once being a productive worker are nothing more than an ATM machine for a particular group of folks. Our claims #'s with it;s stated amount of benefits prove it.That's not only sick, evil BUT a giant scourge on humanity. TO think it happens in the U.S.A is incredulous.<br />How about Injured Workers, INVISIBLE NO MORE!Dina Padillahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10313985766065677265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489363879633129568.post-28711740106143238622014-07-16T07:57:03.332-07:002014-07-16T07:57:03.332-07:00David! Look how much the CNA CEO makes off the mai...David! Look how much the CNA CEO makes off the maiming and killing of American Injured Workers? <br /><br />Is there a problem here? Anybody else able to connect these dots??? Grrrrrr. Now I am reallly mad. Check out the CEO of CNA! <br /><br />CNA chief Motamed a $10 million exec again @CrainsChicago and denies #WyndhamWorldwide injured workers medical...WTF http://fw.to/8cZKHPe<br /><br />How much does this guy profit? Dave North CEO of Sedgwick CMS <br /><br />"We legalize torture one claim denial at a time...."<br /><br />Ought to be some RICO investigations! Ought to be a national class action by and on behalf of injured American workers, imho. <br /><br />Lucy Occupyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05167518537609585687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489363879633129568.post-38197907213878711602014-07-15T14:52:13.479-07:002014-07-15T14:52:13.479-07:00Nice post. Inspiring. Bottom line. Follow the M...Nice post. Inspiring. Bottom line. Follow the Money. <br /><br />In California, and elsewhere, the problem really seems to boil down to attorney-doctor-adjust fraud, in collusion with various State Work Comp agencies. FOLLOW THE MONEY. <br /><br />Take my case. I wasn't 'properly noticed' on any alleged MPN. The manager said, "you can see any doctor that takes work comp insurance' and gave me an incomplete DWC-1 form...no insurance info on it. No doctor would take it. I had to use CIGNA employee insurance the first several weeks. <br /><br />Then I retained an attorney who insisted it was illegal for me to use employee insurance and that HE was responsible for finding the right doctors for me, so just wait, and he didn't need my help. SO I WAITED. <br /><br />While represented, the adjuster promised that if I was not represented, he would help me get medical care. Another lie. Date of injury, January 9, 2012. All I knew is that the lawyers could not/would get me any help, and my brain was all messed up. <br /><br />The first law firm sent me to an ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON and chanted 'there is no psych component to a work injury'. I said, "Lady, it's not a psych component, IT'S MY BRAIN, LOCATED INSIDE MY HEAD THAT GOT CONKED ON 1/9/12"<br /><br />By mid-year, defense legal counsel got involved, starting the pattern and practice of omission of records and ignoring all requests for medically necessary treatments. (The F-word, Fraud, bothers them, but the actions are exactly as stated in the CA 2012 fraud warnings.... so, if it looks like fraud, gets results like fraud, it probably is fraud.....)<br /><br />By November 2012, defense is attempting, in collusion with applicant attorney #2, to effect a premature settlement, waiving all rights for return to work, future medical, social security, medicare and anything. No recommended treatments or further evaluations authorized. $80k out the door, go off and die under a bridge for all anybody cares about you as an injured worker. <br /><br />Applicant attorney was summarily dismissed after the aborted deposition that resulted in the 'settlement' chicanery, in which he said, "nobody will ever believe you have a brain injury, if you don't accept this, you'll get nothing." <br /><br />He didn't seem to grasp that his incompetent failure to get medical treatment for me in the first year was a problem, and that I am injured, not stupid. <br /><br />The QME/AME doctors minimize the injuries and call it a 'headache' and being over age 35, and female. What kind of system would prevent an injured worker from returning to work for a 1,000 day headache? Yeah.<br /><br />Now, 2 years, 6 months and several days later, finally, some good news. <br /><br />A UR RFA for 6 months of day-treatment for TBI was requested, and a verbal 3 months was approved, but the written approval was 1 month. <br /><br />I'll take what I can get at this point, then return to work as soon as possible, and get some on-going real medical help with employee benefits insurance, without the terrorism of the suits and white coats and black robes, so to speak. <br /><br />WE ARE THE MEDIA NOW. <br /><br />THANKS DAVID AND FRIENDS. PLEASE HELP INJURED WORKERS CREATE A CLASS ACTION SUIT, A FEDERAL CLASS ACTION SUIT. WE'RE FED UP WITH THE ORGANIZED CRIME SQUADS...THE BILLION DOLLAR ORGANIZED CRIME SQUADS. <br /><br />David, it's a Grancell case, they moved it to Novato. Wish me a Legion of Angels to protect me, huh? <br /><br />We're fed up with Americans Maiming and Killlng Injured Americans FOR PROFIT.... of primarily the #WorkComp insurance industries, and it's human drones.<br /><br />Tell your friends and neighbors; your governments already know.<br /><br />WE ARE THE MEDIA NOW. :)Lucy Occupyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05167518537609585687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489363879633129568.post-33410691399382426682014-07-15T13:43:08.048-07:002014-07-15T13:43:08.048-07:00How about Mental Health Pain?: Folks I need help,...How about Mental Health Pain?: Folks I need help, I don't like asking, but I do. These folks in my state don't want comp fixed. Patients and workers are being harmed, I want that stopped, but no one in office nor any one running for office will admit that our comp is broken and harming folks. So PLEASE PLEASE call this man or write to let them know the TRUTH Peace PLEASE CALL OR email and let this man know that workers comp is broken. His office asked me what I think they should do. I told them what I think they should do. HE he he he.<br /><br />This is my States labor leader and Workers Comp Chairman, but he don't know what to do about a broken workers comp? Hmm? <br /><br />THAT HAS PATIENT ABUSE happening in it making our iw's mental health even worse out of the injustice.<br /><br />PLEASE CALL and let this man KNOW THE TRUTH that I think he all ready knows. <br /><br />There For the People? <br /><br />I just called, and left a message this tiem and also asked him when his term is up? and what it will take for me to run against him. IM sick and down but I will not tolerate men stealing our grand bargain and allowing patients to be harmed and abused and then have him say he STANDS FOR LABOR when he turns a blind arrogant eye the abuse and theft our GRAND BARGAIN.<br /><br />Unitl you have LABORED a life time MR> SELLS my Teacher and polotician friend. You will never value our grand bargain. <br /><br />And so should not be standing up for labor as if your some HERO, for your your harming us just as much as JAY with his big biz friends over the Laborers interest also. Funny you bashed Sen. Larsen yet you now you do the same thing to labor you accused him of and would not endorse him with YOUR Labor council. Yet you both turn your backs on patient abuse and consumer ins. fraud on the Labor you all say your there for.<br /><br />So even if Im sick in head over all this, I still can not stand back and allow this abuse of labor and patients to go on with doing something.<br /><br />Im going to ask for a RECALL, unless his term is up soon. I have to look into that. <br /><br />BUT PLEASE LET THIS MAN HEAR the INJURED Workers Voice For it is HE NOW that is blocking change of a broken system from happening for labor and patients in WA State. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Rep. Mike Sells<br />(D) 38th LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT <br /><br />Olympia Office:<br />132B Legislative Building<br />PO Box 40600<br />Olympia, WA 98504-0600<br />(360) 786-7840<br /><br />E-mail District Office:<br />2812 Lombard Ave.<br />Suite 210<br />Everett, WA 98201<br />(425) 257-2168Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17682181549172380545noreply@blogger.com